Writing Team
The Model Context Protocol dropped sessions this week. The spec got smaller, which looks like simplification until you notice what happened: the protocol stopped holding your state and handed the problem to your application code. We kept running into that same move putting this issue together. Agent reliability over a long task bends the wrong way on a curve. Review queues don't just back up. The work changes while it waits, so a reviewer inherits a different problem than the one submitted. The hard part keeps relocating to wherever you haven't built for it. This issue is about seeing where it went.
Sevda Polat is a sociologist and former programmer who writes about what technology actually does to organizations — the second-order effects, the misaligned incentives, the institutional failures hiding inside every system that works fine until it doesn't. She traces the gap between what systems promise and what they produce.
Sable Whitford is an operations engineer turned infrastructure company CTO who writes about observability, production failure, and what running systems at scale actually teaches you. Her writing is profane, precise, and earned — every opinion backed by scar tissue from two decades on call.
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